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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically A survey of the major literary achivements of the fifth-century BC Athens within their social, cultural and political contexts. Of particular interest will be why and how this period came to be known as the high point of Greek civilization. Authors to be read may also include Solon, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Gorgias, Herodotus, Thucydides and Plato.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Reading and analysis of plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. The cultural, religious, and political contexts of the fifth century BC will provide the background for literary interpretation of the plays. Supplemental readings may include selections from Thucydides, Plato and Aristotle.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Roman drama, epic, lyric, satire and the novel, with emphasis on the major events and figures of the late Republic and early Empire.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically A survey of the major literary achievements of Roman literary authors at the beginning of the Imperial Age (end of first century BCE-beginning of first century CE), within their social, cultural and political contexts. Authors to be read may include VIrgil, Horace, Ovid, Livy, and later sources of Augustus' empire.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically A survery of the literature of love of the Republican and Augustun periods of antiquity, focusing on the special relationship that love poets established with the thrilling eternal city, the sophisticated, multicultural, never-sleeping, ancient Rome. Authors to be read include Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Summer This is an intensive three-week course. The first two weeks are conducted, seminar style, on campus, with reading and discussion of Roman historians, philosophers, and poets in English translation. The student will also learn about the history of Roman Italy, from the archaic to the Augustan periods. The focus will be on the Roman countryside and the Roman villa as cultural symbols and sites for the development and transformation of Roman identity. The third week will be intensive archaeological fieldwork in Poggio del Molino, Italy, where students will experience firsthand the excavation of a Roman villa. Exposure to the literature and history of the period will be complemented by an introduction to archaeological theory and methodology.
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0.00 Credits
International influence of Brecht’s plays and stage technique. Development of Brecht from anarchist to Marxist.
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1.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 1 Periodically International influence of Brecht's plays and stage technique. Development of Brecht from anarchist to Marxist.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Three-year cycle; courses 74-78, one course each semester The late 18th and 19th centuries: Sturm und Drang, romanticism and realism. Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Hoffmann, Fontane and other representative writers.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Three-year cycle; courses 74-78, one course each semester The individual versus society in peace and war. Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Erich Maria Remarque, Alfred Doeblin, Wolfgang Borchert and other representative writers.
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